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I didn't used to believe in skin walkers until I went on a hunting trip with my uncle last Spring. But strange things happen in the woods at night.
We'd just settled down in his pop up tent trailer for the night, the sun now just below the horizon and the crickets chirping.
Then in the pitch black of the trailer interior I felt a strange sensation. Something spread my ass cheeks and pushed into my butt hole.
I didn't realize it was a skin walker at first, I am not an expert after all. But as the rigid, warm, pulsating ghost tendril or whatever...
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>>787832
Fake and gay
>>787832
You forgot your trip bugguy
This may have been an actual rape, and you should probably start therapy.
>I live in the most hyped outdoor country in the world (maybe Iceland)
>No forests to light fires in, plus its illegal everywhere
>Not cold enough for cozy gear, not hot enough for comfy gear
>Not big enough to get truly separated from civilization
>biomes are too small
>No reason to carry knife/gun, plus also probably illegal.
>have to pay to see the best shit,...
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in what parallel universe is nz the most hyped outdoor country? definitely not here on /out/. or is this from some dumb clickbait "top 10" travelblog written by someone who's only seen 2 pictures of each country
nz probably wouldn't even make my top 40
>>783369
Only strayans and bongs go there.
You must live in the city, my great uncle moved there years ago and lives in some bumfuck nowhere town in the south island miles from anything of consequence and boasts about how firearm laws are way more lax there than in Aus
How effective are road flares at fighting off bears?
I've been thinking of a dual road flare setup in the event I am accosted by one of those brutes.
Somewhat effective, but not nearly as effective as bear spray. Carry bear spray and a high caliber handgun. Bonus, bear spray works on humans, too.
>>791558
What if I toss a few flares ahead of time and spray the offending bear before dual wielding some reserve flares to fight and hopefully blind the bear before making it away to safety?
How hot do these things burn?
>>791561
If I bear wants to fuck you up, you aren't going to have any time to light flares. There isn't any sizing up or shit talk.
Carry the bear spray on your hip. Make lots of noise while traveling. If you see signs of a bear, carry the spray in your hand. If you see a bear, also immediately draw the spray. It's most effective at about 20 feet. The idea is to create a cloud of irritant that the bear will inhale and his highly sensitive nose will become hell.
Source: I live in Alaska
I need the Canadian topo maps for a magellan sportrak GPS(uses the old .img format for the maps).
Anyone have them? Only place i can find them(after pretty fucking deep searching) is on eBay, but its limited to sale only in america(and obviously i'm in Canada). Torrents, usenet, irc, mega, etc.. all came up empty.(I found one place on mega that claimed to have them, but it was obviously just spyware)
There's like 66megabytes, so if someone had the disc and could host them, id be super grateful.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f53bce3c0e9cb1fec152f8cdcf406da14bca3e07&dn=mapsend+topo+canada&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fglotorrents.pw%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce
>>791323
ya dun goof'd, anon
i told ya to get a garmin
put it on ebay for $25 and hope to get your money back, buy something that has reasonable 3rdparty/mfgr support.
So hiking in oregon near veneta and in this field theres a black cat 4-6 feet long not including tail and it catches something runs away and I was maybe 50 feet away and my buddy was right there and we both just stared confused as hell for a few moments. It absolutely looked like a jaguar. It was cougar sized but was jet silky black.
Could you name any animal besides a jaguar that would be like this? Note this is near veneta oregon
Moved completely cat like too could not have been a wolf we were very close to this thing but how could a jaguar be in oregon
I'm from Arizona, so I don't have much experience with large cats, but it seems entirely possible to me that that was just a black bob cat/mountain lion. They look quite like jaguars to someone who has never seen one in person.
>>791264
They can be black? This was much larger than a bob cat ive encountered those before
The north American black cougar has never been photographed and sightings are thought to be errors, as per wiki. Now's your chance, OP, photo that Puma!
At a crisis in life
Gonna walk til i die
Startin tomorrow
Lets see how far i get before i drop
>>791230
What is the crisis?
It's obviously not paraplegia.
Watch out for the rape gangs.
>>791237
Internal
Really autistic
Hello friendly /out/ists,
My gf is looking for a small foldable knife, do you guys have any recommendations?
Somewhere between 50 - 60€
Hope you guys can help me out.
Thanks ;)
>>791223
easy to maintain, isn't scary looking, handbag friendly, inexpensive, legal to carry pretty much everywhere
>victorinox climber
>>791244
She just wants a knife, not a screwdriver, nailfile, saw, hook, cooking apparatus and all that.
Just a simple folding knife.
I recommend you post in the knife thread instead of making a new one >>788947
This yaris is about a thousand times more /out/ than 95% of this board.
>no roof rack
Casual Kayaker detected.
>>790900
Exactly.
I think it's a fucking sofa cushion at the back.
>>790900
Casual Kayaker here, why does it fucking matter? Why spend the money on a roof rack when I can LITERALLY achieve the same effect by strapping it down with some cheap ass straps I bought at the hardware store
I'm hiking at the end of this month. I've done it a couple of times before, but I've noticed that my thighs chafe together when I go for long walks.
Is there a way to minimise or eliminate this? Baby powder, or longer underpants? What would /out/ recommend?
Desitin Diaper Rash Cream
>>790831
Less chafe-y bottoms. Grab some running shorts or something.
Compression shorts work fucking wonders. Go buy a pair at wally world for like $12.
Has anyone ever built something like this? And how?
>>789604
Looking at the photo I'd say apparantly yes.
Howdy /out/!
I want to hear your wildlife encounter stories. It doesn't have to be dramatic or devolve into a cock measuring contest. I just want to hear about some of your encounters, how you handled it, how it turned out, ect. And I'm talking about wildlife, not that /x/ spoopy shit. Green text optional.
I'll paste two of mine to start
If you got any OC pictures from the same trip as the story, share them fool.
>be me
>be innatent
>be inna Selkirk Mountains backpacking
>it's almost 3am
>woke up at 2am to piss
>unable to fall back asleep
>just laying there thinking about how unspooked I am
>forest is making foresty noises
>slight...
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Another
>be bow hunting whitetails in the Little Pend Oreille Wildlife Refuge in WA
>No snow on the ground, but it's cold as hell
>three days in of five
>haven't seen much worth shooting yet, but my standards drop each passing day
>day four
>sitting in my blind by sunrise
>see pic related; it's comfy in there
>forest...
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I got many stories but being honest I am not going to type them out if noone reads them. Just tell me if I should.
>Trapper for 8 years
> hunting for 16
> hunted with bow, rifle, shotgun and side arm
Alright, /out/. You all are way more aquainted with the outdoors, so I wanted to ask you this. What in the world is this thing. I think it's a tick but I'm not certain. If you could give me the type of tick, that would be great.
definitely a tick, well fed too. if it had any diseases to transmit to something, it has done that.
>>787892
definately a tick..
>>787892
Get a needle, inject it with hydogen peroxide. Watch it bubble up and burst. Hilarious.
Hey /out/,
Have you guys ever used an army surplus store to prepare for a week or two innawoods? There's one near my house and I was wondering if any of you /out/doorsmen knew if it was mostly garbage or actually a good deal.
Pic related, these are the same kind of jungle boots I got as a kid in boy scouts and they tore my feet up pretty bad
>>787123
Most issued military equipment really isn't that great, especially the older stuff you'll see in surplus stores. It's designed by people who don't have to use it, and produced from the lowest quality material in the most cut-rate way possible. They just need to equip troops with the bare minimum necessary to accomplish their task, so it's often usable, but just not really the best option.
Sometimes there are great pieces of gear that get issued though, like the American woobie or the...
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My recommendation would be to not buy anything made before the 90s other then tools and maybe clothes.
Ergonomics and comfort was not really a big deal in military equipment back then.
>>787123
I use shit from the military all the time while /our/ but that was stuff they put out recently. Those boots in OP pic are garbage. Even the issue boots now aren't that great. My unit bought us s2v boots every year.
The old alice pack is a beast it might be worth buying. The poncho + woobie is great. If they have the goretx shells for cheap i always loved mine, but i had to give that back when i left. The acu/bdu pants are pretty comfy too i left with a boatload of those and wear them innawoods.
For...
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Sup /out/
I just went on my first adult camping trip for about a week an a half, though it was just car camping
I had to bring a lot of shit to make it work, and I obviously couldn't carry it all if I was backpacking
My question is, how do you cut back on all your shit so you can go backpacking?
Simple get rid of some of the shit. Knife, Axe, Food, Cooking gear, Gel Stove if you want, Tent, Sleeping Bad, First Aid Kit, Bear spray if you need or firearm, 1 pair of clothes suited to the weather, 3 pairs of undies and 3 pairs of socks. Any medications you need. Thats all I bring at most. ~50 Pounds
smaller, lighter, less
start with a 45L pack to limit your ability to overpack. go on 1-2 night trips to start. pay close attention to what you have that you don't use and what you don't have that you wish you had.
>>785420
>Thats all I bring at most. ~50 Pounds
Ex military retard detected. 30 pounds is still too heavy, shoot for 20 to 25
Who /camp staff/ here? Share stories, experience, advice, etc
>>778987
I always wanted to go to camp as a kid. Mainly cause one of my favorite movies as a kid was heavyweights and it made camp look fun as fuck. I wasn't and still not fat though. Anyway, my parents never sent me cause we had a boat and went skiing in the winter and did all sorts of shit. That was how they justified not sending me cause all the shit we did as a "family". I feel they did me a disservice in life for not sending me. You learn a lot at camp and meet all sorts of people. It's a whole different...
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I went to Melita Island and some kid in the same tent as me pissed himself one night. Overall it was a fun time but the pussy range instructors made us use pellet guns for the rifle shooting merit badges. I never got that far into Scouts, quit shortly after the island and decided to just learn all the stuff on my own.
Camp Councilors are basically pedophiles. I was forced to give blowjobs every summer. It was wrong but it made me the man I am, a Camp Councilor.
